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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-09-22, Page 6MACE OF -THE MR aiibeuv=res Proved Tlhat nemy' Destroy Principal Brit- le Cities;,, DEFENCES INADEQUATE I t. Coznmander.ihe 1I011 J 11. Henn orRthy, 1 VI.1 oYmez�ly or Admii alty War Staff, London, and Asst, Chief ox Staff, Chhraltai lst rnol th groat manoeuvres `. ere l craft and three by rho anti wire aif guns, i ed Ont h tbo Royal Aix P� once. i v =M4 fn s 1'fil .t 13 "0 scale. st the and of' the 111 cost n the e I anti-aircraft guns were rod hot ails manoeuvx9 i'be;ab thac`bavc heelx i had• tired off nearly all their amlmrtxi- iddea., or t„th,`Eh" ti1stor:y ef`fiyrn . The tion, and the defending aeroplanes had idez 0f tlr ranee nl res 1l z that nearly all'used xtp their iretror, IP the 1 Br t1,u i; fiiLht.ug a Continental Potter, and heavy air attaatis ou Loan,' 'enemy; had h ,'cl another' twenty or [don"had -decided the' Government is) darty a„roi,lanes to follotiv up with; -neve the capital to" Manchester.„.„far more damage: would have. be clone; 'ttackltxg fonder had to continue Yet 'af -we should have t0 face the The a their air. nit. cks s0 that, the continue n e tragedy, of another war on the large tion. 1vou111 be' imputed. These ree.e, in a ,,e, ova could "be attacked impeded. troul.the Coutinont, the attacking ;air-. m0110eui'res, carried out with great craft would not come in scores; they efilc1'ency by the airmen -concerned and Iwould Grine in hundreds. Pith; remarkably few failures of en- _ It As dii$cuit to exaggerate the Bari- gines, showed once more the. extremis- earners of the''posiLion,. and all the. difficulty of defence against .1}'011 ` countries of 'Europe are In a similar organized'air attacks. : dinlealty, :. a'. Great Britain Is '119 LB an ar an Island During the Geneva Naval Confer - Man's conquest of the ;Lir, though`'teuee wo heard a groat deal of our do Zviil' ultimately ring great bone Ata io pon.dence on. overseas supplies and.: the' bunxanity, has rem0veci our great bar need of' more warships. \Vet -could ri •" f tl TYPHOON IN JAPAN - KILLS 1,000,- A1-IEAVY Stoxt i and Tidal Wave- Caused • by Submarine Cause 'Havoc in Devastated 'Regio- WORLD . TOUR OFF; e1 0 the narrow seas. So long as Illi the English Channel and, the rho Biitislt Navy was' efficient and, NorthSen with cruisers, end that' powerful we could defend our eosin- wouus9l.ha,.u- try against invasion. Now we aro: in ter so-ld bo faras as :protectinessao g: therrelscofountrbty the same boat with the other Con- against air attack was eoncorued If tinental Powers. True, we are.,. not w© -vele completely blockaded by sea, .Chen to attack by li.vading armies, we 0001(1 be starved out iii seven but a more terrible form of attack .veelcs. But if we were attacker) by. from the air can be made upon u'si a string nation :on the'Conthlent; -well Since,. the end of the Great Was, equipped with a rlage Air Force; wo great advances have been, made In the should be,bombsct out in seveu:days. technique of flying. Aeroplanes are It :would, ,b fact; boa competition in more reliable, they, can fly higher and frightfulness between- too enemy and farther, and at greater speeds. And ourselves. the machines )rave' been enormously sot, we spend over' 260,000,000 oer improved. the Navy and only £16,000,000 on the The Americans' have, carried out Air Force, The Army costs .us over experiments with an aeroplane bomb: 200,000,000 a year, The first neees- weighing 4,000 1)00, In its. explo- 01012 it displaces 1,000 cuble yards of sity here is fora Ministry of Defence,.which will :allocate. the, available ]tattl surd. Such a boll) drgpped in money to meet,tThe greatest necessities Princes Street, Edinblirgh'or in Plc, 02 defence. cadiIly, London, world wipe out the But something -mono is required. whole street, _great master of Many disarmament conferences •L -ave modern warfare, writing three years 'Marshal Foch, that been held since the war, but they have : resulted in very little. Thr reason ago, wed these words:— is that every nation insists'' on pro - The potentialities ,of aircraft at vtding what It considers necessary de+ • tack on a large scale are almost incal fence forges so long as war le look- ealable,'but-it-1s clear tbat such an ed upon as a'poseib113ty. attach; owing to its crushing moral; The only real way to, solve the mat- ' on a national -day impress public ter is to outlaw war, •just as the have - opinion to a point of (Manning the ou£Iawe'd the due!, feudal armies, and Government, and thus become deal- slavery,• ' eivo." , I believe the civilized peoples are What 141arshal .IP ooh means,, la that prepared to take this %foul When that sustained air attacks will, in the first 'step is taken' We shall Ione the habit place, Intiictgreat demageon. crowded of war,.the fear of war, and the allies by blowing up buildings, start. ,nuestian and od'the fefe cuts will eolye„it- Ing numerous. fires and, worst 01 all, salt. by dropping bombe loadhed with poison gases. ` Another method of gas attack from Thu air. is�by carrying the 508 '111 cylln- i dere in the -form of a liquid to be dis- charged in a idle spray into the air and forming a poisonous vapour. Ex- periliients have -keen eaccessfully car- ried out and this is a perfectly feast - bre method af,attack, • It would be a big, task to serve out gas masks at the Whole j1bpulation of our country 'and,, even if it Were Pos- sible there aroai least two poisonous gases known to science which are able to penetrate any gas' masks yet in- venteir. . Some relief would ho found by Isle- ' ingmefuge iri ulidergioundtunneis, cel- lan, vaults, etc„ buttlle Whole popular tion could not live there day and night and. carry on its war -works as well. Furthermore, if the attacks are, eon- centrated ou the railway centres the whole' transport of a country ward be (Reorganized, Such pressure, there fore,'could be brought ib bear as to subdue a population by continuous air attack as the Field -Marshal 'fortells, • New.let us consider the strength' of the three leading Air Forces in the France nlaletaiis on a Warfooting 1,400 fighting aeroplanes, and she has nearly 4,000 reserve: aeroplanes, She has pilots, mechanics,• and the other personnel required for this huge forte. Italy has 700 aeroplaties and 600 in reserve, and she is adding enormously to her Air Forge. Britain has 650 aeroplanes in the re. gular Air Foree,and 360 Deserves,' But of our regular Ale Force 'Chis of the' squadrons• have to be-nlaintiiin- ed' iri-Mesopotamia, others are in In- dia, lilgypt, China, or earmarked for • service with the Navy. The RuSslati'$ are building hp a formidable air fleet; and although. Germany is forbidden to 11ave fighting aeroplanes: under the Peace Treaty she has a very large civil Air Force, an& passenger aero- planes can be ,converted to bombers in a few hours.. japan and America are both devoting great attention to. their' itir-tenvices, New' ac to ,the ' defence against aeroplanes.. ' The fact 'of the matter Is. that there' is- na defence except counter-attack. ' -A11 we den do is to carry out reprisals against an enemy. In fact our official policy, decided en by successive 'British Governments, is • to provide a Holme Defence Force Sn the air of such strength that no 'Con.- tihental Power 1111 venture to attack 11s,. the reason being that we could hit back Mahe Same way,;: or harder. This will be poor consolation for the inhabitants of our cities. And it must `b:e remembered that cities as far" north as Glaskow and as far west as C trdi+f, as well as London, will bear the burnt of air attacks in the event of war pith a Continental Power., To show the difficulty of defence 1 will give senio figures,of the last groat air attack on London in the war. This was ,at SVhitsun, 108. .Only 33 German aeroplanes look part in the, attack. 'The defence con- sisted of 803 anti -ail -Craft guns, placed around: London, aided by' 400 search - 1 lights. In addition there300re`70,0 13ritioh'e fighting,. aerop an_e8 Which took the air in a/very gallant manner and attacked the enemy in the darlc- 11031 whereverthey eonl1 Sind,;liim, 1 We had nmoored''balloons; carrying yinng nets or "aprons" of piano wine, in cci'lain ! areas. The raid was the Tao t lama - Ing we' ekperiericed during the 'With, I but only six of the 33 attacking' acre. .,.1 planee were brought ilp'1y1) ,l'hree 'were shot down by the)„tlsh i' Speeding the Maiis, The postal authorities directed Major Tudhope to meet the Empress of Franco last week at Father Point,, pick up the mall bags and fly' back to Montreal. The first attempt proved a failure, but,in the futtre the depart. ment hopesto save fourteen hours' on overseas mail or Toronto. • NEW BRITISH GAS MASK ELIMINATES NOSE CLIP e i s Ey pre es Are Made of Special Splinterless Glass Which Protects Against Cuts Young 'Terence Carries On, ,Captain Terence B. Tully piloted the plane "Sir John Carling into that mysterious mid-Atlantic region which. holds the fate of a mounting list of missing flyers, and loft: "young Ter- ence,” nine years old, to look after his mother 'Mandl hie younger brother; "Love to you: and the boys" was the last. message Mrs. Tully received from the father, husband, and Glaring ail" pilot. Young Terence is shown In the picture above,, beside that of his father, LUNATIC GIVES CRACOW A NIGHT OF TERROR Warsaw, Polanr'1—The city of Cra- cow lived .through a night of terror. For twelve home 'it was -1u danger every moment of being blown upby aninsane man. A gunner named. Kor- nia who had run amuck in 31'ort Greene, below threatened to set off the amort moue quantity of explosives stored there. The lunatic, who had been left alone at the post, communicated his Inten- tion to the commander in a letter de- manding that the President of the Re- Pu'lilie and Premier Pits -Lids -Si come to Cracow and ask him for the keys to the fortress., All night the demented man ran around the huildings'with a Sighted torch, threatening to thyme it into the powder towers.' Oflieers Sent by the cotalnlandegr finally succeeded, atter parleys lasting many hours, la persuading the maniac to surrender by showing him a false - telegram announcing that his request had .been granted by the President and the. Prime Minister. As soon as he, opened the door, !soldiers overpow- ered him and transported him to an tisane asyluin. • ..moo-.�._.. Belgiwr,In and Portugal Ex- -change Africa Land Brussois-A convention has beet aimed between Belgium, ant Portugal 'whereby the two power's agree to ex change certain colonial . districts in ,Africa situated on the frontiers of the Belgian Congo anti Angola, respective- 1t'. The exchange. is being carried out inorder to facilitate the linking up of the railways now in profess Of C0n- 510a0110u from the rieh mining district of Kataage to the c4ast,-Part_of which lies 3a Belgian and part In Portuguese territory, Ifatanga is the elistrlet which Is at present supplying the world's radiant requirement Poverty to Riches If George IT, former Icing of. Greece, lived In eAreerlca,. ho would probably have been asked to declare; Tor the edi- fication of di-ficationof the public, what he intended doing now 'that he has been elevated from comparative poverty to W1110510(3 by the 'behuest_of $500,000 from the Bing of Itumaltia, his rather -le -law. They don't ask ,royalty that soft of queetton in Europe, But.:Journalists are at liberty to guests, ana. evento print their guess—in American nein- Pants. So, of course, there is are port that George howl hopes to regain his throne. With a boetuno of $600,- 000, it is barely pos1ibte that he might. he able to get a bit nearer his crown that before. But i': is a 'question whether a e1•ow11 ganef' on 'tack "'1t shoestring .would by worth having. London -A new gas 'mask embody- ing many improvements and from, which the nose clipping and objection- able mouthpiece have been eliminated is being used 113 the British Army. The newmask was given its first ex- tensive tryout recently during the tank cones manoeuvres ea historic Salis- bury Plain, and it was found that the improvements have brought about a great cheuge in the attitude of the soldiers' toward this "extra", ,,The new respirator is not unlike the old one in general design. It con- sists of the- same lacepiece joined by a rubber tubo to' a metal box or 0012.-' tamer filled with chemicals. Tbe chemicals are used. to ,eelnove poison- ous matter from the air , pass•ieg through the container. The facepiece is made of rubber sheet covered on the outside with khaki stockinette, It is -held in posi- tion on the 'face by file elastic bands which run to the back of the head,, The eyepieces ,of the new mask aro made of a special spiinterless glass, so that, theywill remaht gastight even when the glass 15 'cracked, Since tho glass breaks yvithout splintering the° eyes aro hotter protected from cuts. Special clothing also is being used by the i3rltitls Army :to protect the: slain against blistering agents Such as mustard gas, and anti -gas gloves have. been prov'ided for men required to. handle Contaminated gas shells and' other material., You den tdur the world txo0 on the easy -payment plan, Imagine falling down ori the instalments in Afghanis tan.•': r, Polo Cup Remains in United States Great Britain's Team Loses Second Match and Series at Meadowbrook Westbury, N.Y., Sept. 14.—The Un- ited States "big four" again reigned supremo en the world of :polo, but only after the most spirited' challenge they I have ever had, In a close and fiercely fought battle this afternoon on the greenkturf of the Meadowbrook Club the Unitief States': flour horsemen el -Mcleod Great Britain's the-hanme back to win the second and oleeiding match of the' International Cup series by a score of 8 to fi. The margin of triumph was gained in the first period when the brilliant young United States forward, Tammy, Hitchcock, sewed three eenu1a't oral genie in succession, bot it took all of the defensive shill of the Yanitcea to hold this margin against the spirited attack of "the reorganized British team, • Throughout the last 000en periods the Britons, immeasurably strength- ened by the additi"n of tine hard - riding Captains George anal Bening to the forwardr line, fought the Amer- 10an1 to a standstill in a_battle that contracted sharply with their route in the opening game 1a51 Saturday. HITCHCOCK{ LEADING SCORER.. Hitchcock, ee-:.ho was in the first game,,4cintillatod in the attack,scor- ing five- goals, altogether, but except fel his flashing''spurt in the opening period, Tommy nee to his uu..ddmat'y heights only at intervals thereafter. 1Lis 'wprlc in the first six minutes of the genie, however, 'was enough to &tilde the battle, Two of his three gcals in that ellukker,-were tallied an, , less than a minute of actual p1a Picture Insults Prince Wins Suit Wilhelm- of Prussia .Resented Likeness, on Jacket of Double's Memoirs. Berlin—Prince Wilhelm of, Prussia;. eldest son of the Crown Prince and candidate for the throne 3n case of a monarchist restoration, !Inds' it An in- sult to be pitturod side by side with Iriarty Dotnera, the b1'lgbt young bay. who furnished Genially with her best laugh. in years when Ile Pored es the Prince and was feted t rougheut two provinces, Domela's nlamoirs, now. apllearing, 0arry the Priuecl::� pietilw- Ida 1710 jacket of therbook to show the stmt. iarity: The phbrisiiiug house =detained the Prince was a public figure and could not, object to hie photograph ap- gearing. TTe protested that he cer- tainly could pubr1ely or privately re- sent the implication that he and Domote had anything n Manion, The court lits upheld the Prince and has confiscated the jacket. •+ Mexico also Flard Hit by Telcie. Ona of .the typhoons that sweep thrauglo 'thno eastern s,0as• pasicdica1iy, oomh.0nod v.i�th an tidal wave thrown uP by an earthquake under the 900011, c-crvotl to lay .waste sevoral!; to vn& and damage others am the 'eland 0f ldiush1a, of Which Naga - kaki ,10:the chief' City. Tile ttiuckon (1i tiict,is'almort'crom- pltele isolated, hut the -meagre '2o- ports ioceiven indicate that over 1,000 have been killed many more are miss- ing, thousands 'are injured `and the damage,w111 raw rota the milLihns o,E dollars.. An official report from the Kulnamoto prefecture places the 4.1.6ed in that section alone at 270, the in,- jurod at 1;000, and 7,80 homes washed away, RICH REGION. r The sregion devastated -`by the ty- phoon and tidal Have coinbine:I was 11c11•i13 race gi11011n(, of Which the city of Kumamoto was a ce)ltre with a population estimated at 75,000, Naga- saki's':population of 411,;000 inel dos 11 large-: numbstl0 of -foreigners, Beifore eonmiunications failed from dagga-' saki many houses wen reported to have collaposei end 'the streets were strewn with telegraph and telephone wires anal toppled pan.. 'Trains ser - vie coo2ad, r: The round=thea-world flyers, Brock aria `Se neo, were held up by storm and' on erdncitauioss of friends definitely err -lar 'Storm at 'Sam,' Time .. abanoloncd their Intended, Pacific hop, They ale sloippnng the Pride of De- troithome by steamer, M110:ICTCQ SUFFERS T00. Nogales, Ariz.—A ;101-10 of intelrso tiovefity, which whippet, lip a tidal wave believed to have extended over a thousand mites along the Pacific Ocean, has spread death and dhstruc- "Mon arven• the west coast of Mexico, 1`i,rsE news of the disaster, occurring last We,duesday, reached this broder t wn to clay Meagre reports, to th'e Nogales Worn- slid over badly crippled communication limes said the death toll' night ranch into hundreds,` while other hundreds,; perhaps thousands, were ' left borne- less, .and slh0pping suf0ened severely. Three'of Mnxioo's greatest seaports —Guaymas, Salina Cruz enol Man- zanillo—are reported to, have suffered heavy property: lasts, while taro ves- sels of the National. Lime, the Jalisco and the Navajoa, are missing. Mazat- lan, fourth' important' west coast port, arsefelt the lash of the storm, but not so severely as the othe=r towns. ' The storm, described as mile of the worst hurriegll4s',hi the history of, West . Meieiao,, headed up' the coast from' the Gull of Tehuantepie, Ooue aca,'and swept noeth*ard as'far'ai .Guaymas, Sonora, withvn NO miles ef; the United Straate8 'border. Terris tory-110veral'hund'red miles inland vrat reported affected. Duchess of York to Go oral Air;. King May Address the Empire London—Tile •Ifing's'daugilter-in- law, the :Duchess of York", will make her first-ossay 112 broadcasting Sept, 22. It is probable that the King him- self, before the end of the year, will attempt the experiment of -speaking by vvireless to hip 450,000,000 subjects througl.out^the world,' The Duchess wi}1speak into the microphone.. on the occasion of the presentation of the 'freedom of the city to her ,at Glasgow. Before the King 3s invited to ad- drese by wireless the whole papula- tion of the British .Empire, however, there are many difficulties of trans- mission to be overcome. Further ex periments will be attempted in Oc- tober and upon the results will depend the opening of an Lmplre service. It Is said that tho female crab has one million youhg at a birth. No won- der the 'father crab's eyes stick out so far. According to the Literary Digest, worms are drawn to the .surface only by musical sounds which annoy them, MIAs is passed on as a. suggestion to the early birds, D1 Paso Times, Prince George Favors Rajah by Cello Solo La1clou.—Prince Georgedeas earned a name az an "entertainer,' It 'was at ono of :the "Do -Something" parties popularized b'y Mrs.: 'Vernon Lewis, a New York hostess, in the hotel suite, of the Maharajah' oi• Bejpipla, r After dinner t11e Mahal:ajah an' noulteed that, fns pad of the usual m1011001 • entertainment before the dancing began, every elm of his guests. would'` have to contribute . something toward the fete,: The 'King's third son borrowed a collo and played a 'solo, nthen, 431anged, t0 •a 'Clarinet and 11rd the same FARMERETS `'PROVE TO BE GOOD 'JUDGES. Left to ni t-,1ar Anderson, ..Peel 'County; itY,Wilma. Boucher,PeoirCount� Evelyn nYoung, 'Clie lte Alice 1haira`, Bacon, Claremont;' Ida Galliraittht G10n Valley, who plored their ability as jjrtee stock yudgt'J at the TV E J Tropical ains Halt tt -Harvest g Severe Electrical Storms Sweeps Over Winnipeg Nobody Hurt ' T 11v';pets--h ruostiug operations several werte n districts, partou, • laxly in Manitoba everethalted, follow, ing. ;heavy -rain storms over the week, end. , After a clay of st0lne heat, with the mercury climbing well above the 80 mark, Winnrpee, and dfetrict exec perieneeck ora of the worst electrical;; storms of the esaeo.-i, accompanied' by a thrre .fi al diown-pers% A' -heavy wind; preceded the rale, but 120 reports of damage have been received. Rural districts reported heavy rain and wind, but no crop; damage was. reported. -' - •- Heavy rainfall was fairly general liver the Saelrato ei district. Thresh- _- log will be probably delayed in parte' of that peov13100, .1 , Relieved a storm casualty, the body of William Bohn, 'aged 21, was fcued lying on the road near Broadview, Sark. It is thought he was struck by lightning, • MISSING EDITOR BORN IN- TORONTO Phil Payne, whir is shown above with his wife, well known newsPePer man of New York, Veto was born in Toronto, was a passenger ou 0011 Mora," travelling with Lloyd Bertaud and Samos D. Hill, old Glory and its three occupants are now numbered among the mistiing.. When a small boy Payne moved to Gravenhurst where he started his journalistic careeron the Graven ,burst Banner, kie visited Gravenhurst last year. % ' li/iiss 'falls,. to Study Art, Tinted Nail is i e -Li e 4 ,Practices an S d n . L',i,Eldon Fad Boston—Helen WiI1s„.world's ahem - 'pion woman- tennis playerr, who is ambitious to follow a careen in pori tenth; '(aintfi , 'is' 111an1ing, to attend the leoeten. 1111iseum "6P` Bine' .Arts' Camel -soon, she said 01111111 plag131g at ivianchesterti :Gently,,,•, $b ' 1{l .p w ma oring in art at tate 'University' California. ' Iliscussing her prefer - once tot portrait 'painting, Miss WS11e. "T made my first sketch when I was three years old, and I 'Lave always lilted to matte pictures of people. "I often take my sketch pad to -the courts and draw the players In action, By studying my opponents that wap I have )Gamed a lot about their manner of play. I've really discovered a great 1 deal about the dynamics of tennis. play through this, It's ,hard to ex - 1)11111, but in every stroke and effective position there'is. a dominant dine. You see11 on the court; It runs through tto piayer's whole body and through the 1 racquet following the path of the hall Only the better elayyete :have it. You c'an't and it in the green er''jerIty. 1 gayer;: , ;, • "This continuity of action makes each r:`iay a' unit 'and at the same time a good 'design wbeu observed in a drawing." Miss Wille has studied for three years in. the fine arts .department of the University of California, i Football is being substituted for head -hurting among the Philippine savages, Evidently the report that they arc becolning,civillzed is greatly exaggerated, --Los Angeles Timor, • They Are Polished So as to 'Match One's Pearl Necklace Landon -Finger nails tinted, enarn- oled and .polished to'match one's pearl necklace le the latest fad among the fashionable women of London, a lead- ing manicurist here disclosed recently. A new polish which gives all the 1a5tco anddridesceuce of pearls is being used and may, be applied either with nepinic tinge to match pinkpearls or with the mire' crystalline sheen of the oyster pearl. here, .according to our authority, is the latest rule Jor.niani0uring: "To ire smart a woman must new wear her finger nails about a quarter of, an inch bong, the 'effect being to make the hand look as long es pos- sible. The filbert nail i5' still the idea. to be aimed at, but it is uo use put. ting' a pointed nail on a stumpy hand. That would be just about as ridiclil- oils as a' pierrot's hat on o, little fat mall, "Extravagance 111 tnanicuee will al- ways he considered vulgar. That is why it considered .improper in the, Wepteru World to use henna, But for women of , dark coloring a red polish Ioolcs attra1tive,t anis. is being used extensively for evening wear.” Those who pester us with the ad- vice, "Delft worry," which is seldom accompanied by any helpful sugges' Lions as tothe escapee 4)011 the Canoes usually mean, "Don't worry`ine;'•