1940-08-24 — Page 11

NANCY

WE OUGHT TO BRANCH

OUT AND WASH

1 CATS TOO!

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JAPAN to-day possesses one

of the most formidable navies in the world. By means of it she has occupied the strate gie Halan Island and annexed Spratley island. She has forti. fled the Caroline and Marshali Islanda.

She Is serretty building Super- dreadnoughts, each over 40,000 tons, muuated with 10-inch guns and enp- able of making 30 knots. She 浩 resolved to have a navy that will give her stiprgne rule nut only over the Facade but de ores the hal.un

Jerun.

And yet less than 33:14 hundred years ago, when Commodore Perry's feet entered the Bay of Unga in 1853, Japan was without 11 DAS worthy of the namr

Impressed by

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By Ernie Bushmiller

DOGS AND CATS WASHED

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VERY- 10

Gun Duel Over The Channel

British Reply

London, Aug. 23, Dover police and A.R.P. workers elcaned up the wreckage in spots where shells fell, The damage was confined to civilian property, but it was fairly widespread.

In one direct hit a shell plerced the stained glass window of a church and exploded near the altar,

blowing out nearly all the windows and mapping the pows like matchwood, walle shrapnel tore lumps from the pillars. A casing.0 by 3 by 2 inches was found on the steps of the pulpit. Two houses were badly damaged, but occupants were not seriously hurt-United Press.

Ministerial Communique"

London, Aug. 23. A communique issued jointly to- day by the War, Air, and Home Ministries stated/-"Last Security night enemy artillery on the Frencht coast opened fire on the Dover area. Enemy shells caused some damage to There was a number of bulldings. casualties." United Press.

POST OFFICE

The General Post Office "will: cloand at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 27th August 1940,-/

The arrivals and departures o mails from and to neighbouring countries and coast ports, of which there is a frequency of more than ong service a week will not in future he adverilsed.

and the

This decision has been after careful

consider public are requested to co-operate to the extent of forbearing to inquire by telephone the dates of such malls, as answering sach inquiries makes heavy Inroads on the time of the postal staff.

The Publle' are requested to, noto particularly: the time of closing the Imperial 'and'' Pan, American"-Afr Malia on Tuesday, 27th August, 1040. Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

The "escalator clause" provided JAPAN'S strength in cruisers is for in the London Naval Treaty of also formidable.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Out of a total of

Registered and Parcel Molle are 1030 was brought into piny, which thirty-seven, twelve are modern

closed 15 minutes earlier than the meant the abandonment of treaty

time given below unless otherwise limits in the event of any buliding 0-inch-gun ships completed between

stated, and where mails Bro advertis- by any nation not in conformity with 1820 and 1032, while thirteen (not

ed to close at or before 9 am, regis- treaty limits.

over-age) are ships mounting guns of

Britain Roturns Fire

tored and parcel mails are closed at or 0.1-inch calibre, Her Meanwhile, Japan embarked upon 5.5-inch

London, Aug. 23. 5 p.m. on the previous day, When ber oversens adventure on the Asintle armed with ofteen 6.1-inch guns are

During the German bombardment | mails are advertised to close atter, continent. Her armed forces oc amongst the most powerful cruisers cupted Mukden and four North- of this type now in the world. Be-British artillery fred several rounds 5 p.m., Registered and Parcel malls

across the Channel in the region of are closed at 6 p.m. castern Provinces of Ching in the sides being heavily armed, Japanese Calais-Reuter Bulletin, autumn of 1831. Her naval expan cruisers can all maintain a minimum

British Quickly Find Range speed of 33 knots, She is now build- sion proceeded on schedule,

eight cruisern which will be even FREED from any heaty obligation Mogant class of cruisers of 1,500 tons

London, Aug. 23. An eye-witness on the south-east (>1 Bal Himitation Jupan went

25. ahead with her programme of a more powerful than her Mogami cunat reported that the British guns bombarded the German guns on the

Atripye French coust after the flashes

.Aug. 26. hund betrayed their

He said Calcutta, Straits and Saigon Aug. 20, positions.

found the

Aug. 26.7

Direct Service."---San Francisco date, 20th August.

.Aug. 27. London and Manila.. .Aug. 28. Conadu, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai

(Vancouver B.C. dnte 10th Aug.): Aug. 20.

expansion

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class of cruisers, and at least two of

missioned.

or her

strength

iz

that the Britishl

destroyers, that

Bire

Presa.

range

INWARD MAILS US.A., and Manila (San Francisco date, 2nd August). Aug. 24. Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Ber

vice" Air Mail

Serview

by "Imperial

London und Straits

She intnediately plan- ned to build capital ships far larger are believed to have been com- than the 35.000-to maximum agreed

viber Powers. upam try the Betish and the American govern- Japan has seventy-one modern ships quickly and sent a salva of shells Air Mail by "Pan American Airways 718

Ko runverned over this and thirty-me are over the gener-seromming across the Channel. For few minutes the nction looked like of that each

alxteen them

ser addressed a note ally accepted age imit

an artillery duel; then the German to the Japanese government

She Is asking yours.

now building about

noticeably believed to be

slackened.--United The Japanese governs thirty destroyers, for a denal

At a meel- ment, however, refused either to con- ships of 2,000 tons each.

German Confirmation firm or deny it, and drew ever closer flee of speed, which is

two about the veil of secrecy about her naval knots

Anertean destroyers. Jupanose de- plazis

Jelly

armed Great Bastion and the United States 13 are

Japanese destroyers of 1,700 were, therefore, forced to meet this tons dispinceanent mutant six 5-inch

we threat by building capital

ne torpedo-tubes, where ships about 40,000 tons mounting in and zine

as the average modern Britti des- 10-inch guns

trayers mount only four 47-ch The Japanese Navy now consists of guns and ten torpedy fules, though ten battleships, thirty-seven cruisers, the latest are more heavily armed

་ ་ slower Than British and

Be

JAPANESE NAVY

the

the Iwo of

Berlin, Aug. 23 The Omell News Agency to-day stated that British long-range guns yesterday Ixambed the neighbourhood of Calals without doing my damage. -United Press.

12-Inch Guns Or Bigger

London, Aug. 23. Though mildary circles to-day run- Armed the report that British bet- teries had repiled by shelling Calula, they declined to say whether the Bring was from land guns tors; our would they give the exact time of the British helion,

They declared that German shell- Ing from Cifuis would not make the military position on the British einst untenable. The Germana were 'pro- bably using 12-Inch guns or a little A number of the emplace- bigger. ments were at Calais and Boulogne.

-United Preas.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

pławerful dreadnaught now At the outbreak of the Cantal ship lite med at any es to Crat Beriain and the United Each of them has a displacement of So far as can be ascertained, she is Summary issued yesterday says;

In 1914, the Japanese Diet spazzarl kevelt-year naval expansion pro- Krapine In 1917. Dhe was enlarged by

stormfle

aller

of the

while the

remaining eight

Twelve

N

10,000

18-Inch

and

the

undertone

Business Done During the Week Union Insurances $305, $3071⁄2 H.K. Fire Insurunces $136 racks (Old) $15

In six alteraft-carriers, three seaplane in subanarines, Japan has forty rello of naval strength Do the compellijun in the coste- 5-5-3

one hundred and leg two modern ones and only twenty [ "Washington

Cruners" eruisers, destroyers, and submarites, carriers,

She is build- submarines, are a little over age. sixty-two And again, although i is true that and smprised a capital ship laukding destroyers. 59,000 Lori With the help of the the signatories of the Washington "halklay".

and other auxillary and service ships ing twenty submarines, of which a commis- aggregating 1,134,823 tons. To these number must have been English and the French, who helped Naval Treaty agreed to put a stop tor

From the begining, the Japanese must be added, of course, those ships sioned by now. the Japanese to build the row far the constrution d capitul ships and

Besides the ships now on active Yokosuka m naval bases ni

and the scrapping of those which were Nievy had iusted tut they should which Japan is now secretly building.

be loved to live at least seventy of her capital ships, construction.

Mutsu service, Japan is building a number then to press of Kure, the Japanese Navy

most of battleships, the exact number and rupoilly did not forlot the mixternisation of pere vent of the tofal tonnage allow. and Nagato L

nout, particulars of which nobody knows. Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal expanded Russo-Japanea War in 1904, Japan provenant in the nighting quality of

erumets destruyers, sub- 32720 tons, mounted with State B

The indifferent weather of this h now building at least four monster 10-Inch had a foot the 78 shaps seith n tot a older stilpes

marines, and auxiliary slips Thes

welt super-dreadnoughts of over

werk has sadly interfered with busi- suna.

with The signatories of the Washington had accepted the 5-5-3 ratio of naval battleships are mounted with 14-inch for each, mounted

well Lonnage of 250,816 Comras,

ness. Enquiries have been Naval Treaty also agreed to inke a strength at Washington reluctantly

than 30 knots. She mrval "boliday" But, in int regarded it as a sort of national Ks. The secondary armament of all guns and capable of making more į maintained though prices have kept teen year

at buliding fairly

stendy. 'The Japanese buttleships is far more ex- Drug the absence of any agreement on the pumiliation; and now this Minsella tensive than that of the battleships an entirely new type of warshipsteady to firm and given opportunities a kind of fast, and powerful bottle of sellers and buyers to meet, prices Lluisers and politician hul again brought honie "

of any other nation. The Nagato, a project covering aux hay dips, Japan went ahead in humiliating terms from London, the construction of 2 more

for instance, mounts twenty 5.5-inch cruiser, something between the Ger- and turnover should both increase. The stamtime of vessels in these

The honour of Imperial Japan was guris compared with! crusers and a number ut muxiliary categories

twelve han "pocket battleships" the The result was that two In 1910, the Programine wi

wi yet

The Navy was furious. 5-neli guns of the equivalent Ameri- French battleships of the Dunkerque the Conference new at stake again enlarged by a

6-Inch Upe. project warships new

ategories laid Prime Minister Haniguchi was held van battleships and

Why should Japan have such a covering the construction of

of B cupital

down by the Powers involved in the responsible and paid the penalty at guns of the equivalent British battle-

no far- powerful navy? She has ships armert

18-inch with

the hands of an assassin who was, ships.

flung oversean possessions (Nagato, Mutau, ete... hatte 5-5-3 ratio were

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be if noted, a young naval officer. In addition, the Japanese battle British Empire, ur has Kho any

Eighteen months after the signing ships are all of high speed.

naval base situated thousands of of the London Naval Treuly, Japan larly is this noticeable when come miles away from home like Pear! laid down her Mogami cias of paring the Japanese battle-feet with

The fast-arboy and Dutch Harbour, as in cruisers, designed (mount ifteen that of the United States.

the case of the United States. ship is not cup- In other words, Japan kald down 1-inch guns. Gone was the spirit est American butileship

FOR defence, even with the 5-5-3 Such a programme of naval com 33 vessčia to i for bath the United that inspired the convening of the able of much more than twenty-one

London Naval Conference, and the knots, while man struction naturally resulted in a rare Slates and Great Britain combined.

ratio of naval strength, Japan's nuvy have many ships

not for naval rearfnament and expansion Actually, abc fald down more in treaty itself ipso facto became a dead legged more than twenty knots in would be powerful enough to rule among the chief marithne Powers, these two years than all the reak of letter. Mainly

the supreme in the Western Pacific. LO counter the rerent full-power trials. In the Grent Beltain Having learnt the lessons war the world put together the world' del to build larger cruisers at a the slowest unit it capable of making her Lion class of buttleships which,

Navy, on the other hand, was Japanese

England has been forced to bulld was 29, adding forced of France and sacrifice of numbers essential to her twenty-two and a half knots, while are at least as powerful as the mon-

empire defence, fund the United most of them

Japanese do twenty-three ster

auper-dreadnoughts. As a result of Japan's States did likewise in laying down knola, The recent reconstruction of The United States has also to em-

The Savannah class of

of the Mutsu and Nagato has further bark on a programme of naval con- of cruisers, destroyers 1,000 tons mounting Afteen 6-Inch raised their top speed from twenty-struction us provided and submarines in the syna.

three to twenty-six knots.

Vinson Bills.

period immediately following the Wo-

crubers (Amagi, Akagi, etc }. 20

Csalers

Submarines

Destroyern

I

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15

11

light cruisers, 04 destroyers, and Great Britans submarines at a total expenditure of ted States 1) Yen 300,000,000, or about one-third Japan of the national budget.

nfler four years of hardi fighting, no Power wun Interested in this race except Japan.

nble

To achieve an equit

limitation in naval strength between the chief naval Powers and the Washington Conference WSIN

(01) -

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-By. YEH

Ch'iu-Yuan

1ban

Italy.

7

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extensive construction

shington Conference,1

vened in 1921 by President Harding, rivalry in the construction of such Desides settling political questions vessels soon developed. The Geneva and re-affirining the principles of the Conference, called by President Open Door in a separate treaty, Coolidge in 1927, was unfortunately? which bus

since been commonly unable to solve the problem. 'known as the Nine-Power Treaty, two naval treaties were concluded,

Three years later, there met 1 London the delegates of the British

THE first was the Quadruple Paetite Empire, the United States, Japan, Treaty which terminated the Anglo- France and Italy "desiring to pre- Japanese Alliance, and the other the vent the dangers and reduce the Five-Power Naval Treaty, By the burdens terms of the intler treaty,

Inherent in

competitive

the con- armaments and desiring to carry tracting partics agreed to maintain forward

the work began by the

a definite ratio of relative naval Washington Naval Conference and strongth in the largest type of war-facilitate the progressive reulisation

This ratio has since been

been of general ilmilation and reduction

ships.

Slates

As the B-5-3 rako.

France

A of armaments,"

and

British Empire and the United

THE boste idea of the London States both had the right to build the strongest navies each to the ratio Naval Conference was to extend the of 5, Japan was allowed a navy only ratio of relative naval strength in three-fifths of the

of the naval strength. of capital ships agreed upon at the the British Empire and the United Washington Conference to cruisers, destroyers and Bubmarines. The Italy accespectively.

accepted naval parity with one London Naval Treaty of 1930, which

embodied another, and their ratlo

the results of deliberations was 1,75 for the Bri at the Conference, also instituted a compared with that of

Empire and the United States capital, ship building "holiday". No and 3 for Japan.rmitted that any capital ship during the term of algnatory Power was to lay down While it must be much was achieved at the Washing the treaty, which was to expire at ton Conference such as, for in the end of 1936. stanco, no future capital ship should Whatever may be said. for the

85,000, ton

exceed

tena displacement,

or London. Navál Conference, subse- mount a gun of more than 10-inch quent events soon proved that its callbre, and, aircraft-carriers, should ideals were Impracticable, "Imme- not have a displacement in excess of diately after the rotura

of Baron 27.000 tonelt failed to reach any Wakatsuki, Chief Japarol Kato, workable

agreement, on the relative to the

Delegate Naval

strength of cruiser and huxiliary then-Chinference noref

ships,

Pof the

Instead.

of fine treaty which had just been tonnage and gun power for cruisers, ratified by the Japanese Emperor, and the treaty is responsible in a way which extended the scope of

WOTE Kimik, Staff, strongly objected, to the terma

cruisers

FUNNY SIDE UP

can do

Particu

By Abner Dean

PHYSICAL CULTURE

JUST YOUT

like the

for in the

The changed situation in Europe due to the collapse of France has up- set the naval balance of power in the Pacific and Indian oceans. French Indo-China now lies within cusy grasp of the Japanese navy. The only Pacific Power with $ navy strong enough effectively to check

the Japan's. ambitions in

United States.

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Hotels $3.35, 83%

Lands $31, $30, $30%

Humphreys $84

Troms $15.30, $15

Star Ferries $57

China Lights (Old) $0.55 $02.

$0.55

Electries (Old) $37, $371⁄4 Electrics (New) $354, $35.00 Macao Electries $17

Straits af Calcutta.

MAILS

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Saturday, Aug. 24

Parcels.......Aug. 24, 4 p.m. Letters....Aug. 24, 8.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways- Servier to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United-Kingdom. G.P.O. & K.P.O. Ref...

Ord..

Aur. 24, 5. p.m. .......... Aug. 24, 5.30 p.m. Indo-China, Malaya, Jaya and Australia by the “Imperial

Air Mail

for

Airways Service."

Reg.. Ord..

Swatory

G.P.O. & K.P.0.

.Aug, 24, 5.00 pm.

Aug 24, 5.30 pm,,

Monday, Aug. 26

........1 pm. Tuesday, Aug. 27 Manila, Australia and New Zealand

vin Thursday Island

Ord.

(1.3.0, and K.P.0. Reg......Aug. 27, 4.15 p.m. ↑ .................Aug. 27, 6 p.m.-. Stralis, Ceylon, India East and South

Afrien and United Kingdom.

G.F.O. and R.P.O.

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.Aug. 27,5 p.m.

Aug.

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Aug. 28, 8.30 nan. Air Mail for Indo-China, Malays, Java and Australia by the "Imperial Airways Service"

K.P.O.

„Aug. 27, 4.30' pm.

Aug. 27, 5 p.m.

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Ord,

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Rex.

Aug. 27, 4.30 p.m.

Ord.

Aug. 27, 5 Time! ⠀

Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Bare:) vice" to Durban and thence by. Ben

Service to United-Kingdom

Reg.

Ord.

Bez.

Ord.

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.Aug. 27, 4.30 p.m. ....Aug. 27, 5 pm.

Air Mall for Manlia, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A., and Europe via "Pan Ameri» can Airways, and Trans-Atlantio Service."

.Aug. 27, 4.30. p.3. 2. Aug. 27, 5-pm? G.P.O.

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moment with warding off all possi- bilties of an invasion by Germany to be able to spare any ships of the for Far Eastern waters. Japon realises this; hence her successful pressure on England to close the Yunnan-Burma Road to the transport of arms and ammunition, gasoline, Fallway equipment and trucks into China. The hurried evacuation of British women and

/of

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Telephones (Now) $8.75 H.K. Ropes $5

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Hongkong has given dramatic GET A RICH SMOOTH

phosis to the danger,

On top of..

how

alf this, the broadcast from Tokyo on June 20 by Arita, the Japanese Foreign Minister in the Tonal Cabinet, enunciating a Monroe, Doctring for East Asia, In- cluding the South Seas region, be- tokens a bid for Japanese, hegemony, in the Pacific First conquer China, then Indo-China; afterwards' Hong- kong, the Straits Soltlements, the Dutch East Indies, New Zealand,

the Philippines and Australla America is that the undeclared Aspiration of the men who control Japan's milltary machine? It all seems fantastic and unreal. But have not more fantastic things hap ponied

Fat-sighted British, and American, statommen will; undoubtedly, realise that; the future of the Pacife, and | Indlan: voederis, dépenda??.upony their.

unvallatrength "and upon that aloneis

TAN

WITHOUT PAINFUL

BURNING

with

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