WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1927,
AVIATION PROGRESS.Display at Hendon, for. Instance,
CURRENT RECORD OF EVENTS.
London, Sept. 1.
the
RUSSIA'S DRIVE.
ASPIRATIONS IN THE PACIFIC.
Among the mass of literature on
THE CHINA MAIL,
FATAL FIRE.
TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
specially trained Instructors per- formed amazing evolutions on their Armstrong Siddolay engined D.H. Moths. These little machines not only flew but also "looped," wing
Orion, Sept.-28. It is greatly to be deplored that tip to wing tip, with absolute ac- China, good, bad and indifferent, Two children, a boy aged four the attitude of the Treasury to curacy, but perhaps the most scrus-which has flooded the market during and a girl two years old, were burn- wards the expense involved prevent- tional feat was spinning in forma- the last couple of years, we have led to death when their house was ed anything like a representative tion. Machines came out of their seen no clearer or better balanced reduced to ashes at Sitio Mamala, British aircraft exhibit being sent corksrew dives, all facing in the statement of the position in that Julian, a widow and mother of the Orion, yesterday, Mrs. Eusebio to the International Air Exhibition same direction, and all engines re-chaotic land than that of Mr. H. K. children, had just finished cooking ut Copenhagen. The Air Ministry started as if switched on by a single Norton. An American lawyer, his their lunch and left the two chil- were well disposed towards giving unseon hand. These machines and book "China and the Powers" dren alone in the house while she. Anancial assistance, so that a fully engines are to be standardised in (recently published by Allen and went out to bathe and fetch some representative collection of mathe R.A.F.
Unwin, Ltd.) is the fruit of exten-drinking water. When she return- chines and engines could be sent Among the new experimental air-sive travel in the Far East, special ed she saw the house on fire and out, but sanction was rofused to craft shown at Hendon this year study of its knotty problems and the people to rescue the children] shouted for help hut all efforts of the expenditure of the few thou-were
De Havilland-Napier the ability, sadly lacking in many proved fruitless as the thatched sands required, and thus another "Hound," a new type of two-seater writers, to arrange his matter and roof made of cogen grass and the opportunity of maintaining national general purpose machine, and the set out his conclusions with lucidity.nipa walle burned rapidly.---Na- prestige at an Exhibition where Fairey Napier IIIF two-seater day There is no space here to deal with tional News Service. other nations were present in force bomber, both of which are faster the terrible picture he has painted machines than any of the service of the devastating effects of the was lost to a large extent.
A fine exhibit was, however, single-seaters. ·
civil war. That is familiar to our ART LIFE OF RUSSIA. Claimed to be the fastest two-readers. Nor can we deal with his staged by Armstrong Siddeley Motors, including examples of their seater machine in the world, and justification of the various foreign range of air-cooled engines. The bearing a striking resemblance to rights and privileges or his well- the ita baby brother, the popular Moth, told story of England's relations Jaguar, which is extensively used by the "Hound" has an astonishing with China. What has caught the "The artistic life of Russia to the Royal Air Force, and has Cab-rate of climb. It is fitted with aaye is his story of Russia's drive to day is simply marvellous. The hunt's great flights to its credit. It Napler Lion engine, developing the Pacific, and this is told in one events of the last few years have is a 14-cylinder engine, arranged in some 552 hp. The well-known rac of the best chapters of the book deepened the character of the two banks of 7 cylinders, and it ing pilot, Captain H. S. Broad, was Clear evidence of Russia's aspira-people and concentrated their en- develops 295-475 h.p. at a normal responsible for putting this latest tions in this direction was recently ergies in spiritual channels. Eng- speed of 1,700 R.P.M. Next in the D.. production through its test found by the Chinese authorities land is, artistically, fifty years range comes the 7 cylindar Lynx of flights.
The wireless arrangements at the Soviet raid at Peking. One of
among the documente captured in behind the Russia of to-day." 180 hp. The Mongoose is a medium
This was the statement made to powered 5 cylinder radial engine Hendon this year were on a very these, addressed to Longva, the a "Daily Express" representative developing 125 h.p.; while the complete scale. A Marconi Reisz Soviet military. Attache in Peking, by Mr. Albert Coates, the famous smallest of the range, the Genet, microphone picked up the music setting forth the aims of the Rue conductor, who was head of the develops 65-75 hp. at 1,820 R.P.M.from the R.A.F. band and amplified sian Intelligence Department in Russian Imperial Opera from for a weight of only 176 lbs. it by means of a very powerful in China, defined the direction and 1910 to 1919, and who has just
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contribute to the weakening then be performed for the first Thus the Lynx is, to all intents and purposes, half the Jaguar, while the cylinders and associated parts of the Mongoose are also interchange- able with the Lynx and the Jaguar.
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ARTIFICIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
of its absolute reliability. On two Siddeley Jaguar air-cooled engines, Eastern policy, if nowhere else. the stage absolutely.bare of furniture (artificial eclipse of the sun on the plate. There was also the problém shiny "topper" go up to a group of
dows.
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The ex-officer was full of "Do you remembers," whilst the navvy mur- mured:
"It must be 10 years ago, just after the Messines Ridge stunt. Ten years!"
Then he added, looking down at the pipe-lined excavations:
"Still in the trenches, you see,
From the amplifters, the music of Imperialism in Europe and time outside of Russia. was sent over several miles of wire the New World. The first factor "We have everything to learn to various points in the aerodrome, dietated the necessity of a very from the Russians," said Mr. and reproduced through 24 giant minute study of North China and Coates, "Mr. Cochran has been so loud speakers. At the same time it Korea as the region for a future interested in what I have told was passed on to an RA.F. short war, while the second dictated the him that he is going out with me wave transmitting atation, which necessity of a similar study of the next year to see what ideas he can broadenst it to the machines taking rest of China as a source of supply pick up in the Russian theatre. part. Each aeroplane participating and as providing possible active We hope to start in April. was fitted with a receiving set so allies for the U.S.S.R. in its war half months in Leningrad I con- "In the course of two and a The three essentials in an aero- that the pilols were able to carry against Japan, England, America plane are speed, capacity for man out their evolutions in time with and others. Mr. Norton's view that ducted at thirty odd perform- uvre and reliability, and it is the music. Orders transmitted by the Soviet Government has been ances, and every one of them was interesting to note the fulfilment of the Squadron leaders were picked carrying on its subversive Bolshe- Packed. They were thrilling audi- there points by the well-known up at three points on the ground, vist propaganda
in China-mainly fences, intent the whole time. The Nappier Lion engines.
nad broadcast to all parts of the with an eye to territorial plunder is
jopera and the theatres are all Although nominally rated at 450 nerodrome, and spectators were thus borne out by the timely discovery ite authors is Shaw-they
crammed One of their favour- hp, the Lion actualy develops 502 kept closely in touch with the proof this document. He maintains simply crazy on him. p.h. at 2,200 R.P.M., and this high ceedings. power is obtained with the low
Theatre "Decoration," Sight-Seeing "De Luxe." policy in the Far East is identical weight of 1.8 lb. per horse-power
that of the old Tsarist "New forms of art äre being developed. At the sama time ita London always does its best to with
tried out every day. There is one entertainment for its regime:
taken it acted the part of
WAR SCARRED. design is su compact that it is provide
The Instruments are different, the theatre in Leningrad which is
the moon at the moment of totality, particularly easy to install and to vialtors, and this summer a new
completely covering the sun. The We are now used to the war- streamline, thereby adding con- thrill was staged by Imperial Air-technique is altered, but the goal, wholly given over to artistic ex-
problem was, however, not so scarred appearance of Recadilly, siderably to the efficiency of ma- ways, who arranged a series of tea remains the same. Each policy is periments, and, far from being
simple as it sounds. The slightest but unexpected incidents are always thines to which it is fitted.
flights over the Metropolis in one but the natural expression of the empty, it is crowded out regular- mighty economic impulse of the ly. The Russians have pushed
Zermatt (Switzerland) Aug. 30,
ray of unwanted light had to be happening there. One day last On long distance service fights, of their glant Argosy air liners.
stopped from finding its way round week I was surprised to see a per- and in every-day commercial flying,
These 20-senter machines, which Russian mass towards free access symbolistic decoration to its fur-
Two Englishmen have created an the artificial moon to the sensitive fectly turned out young man in a You often see this type has given repeated proofs are fitted with three Armstrong to the open sea.... In their Farthest extent.
summit of the Gornergrat Moun of atmospherics. Soviet authorities have the ap-and decorated only with great tain in the silence of deep snow and
navvies and shake 'one of them symbolic designs.
"An experiment of this kind vigorously by the hand (says separate occasions, 4 machines have developing 1,200
a buffet for refresh-proval, albeit grudgingly given, of
in a temperature below zero (writes would be quite impossible in Lon! "Daily Chronicle" writer). back; in each case the engines used ments. The main cabin is some 29 the exiled groupe of upheaval German opera in which the harsh They are Dr. W. H. Steavenson, of the dust, smoke, and water-the simple explanation of the lown from Cairo to Cape Town and steward and
"I say the production of a new a "Daily Express" correspondent). I don," said Dr. Steavenson, because The man's face broke into amles
stores without any special tuning. gers sitting on either side of a cen-Russia is going to bring into power ised in the corations which were enl: Association, and Mr. L. S dust and smoke disappear, and cor and batman together in France. were standard Napiers taken from it. long and 6 ft. high, the passen- ticians. No further upheaval in
spirit of mdernity was symbol-president of the British Astronomi- vapour in the air. At this height episode was that they had been off- and, on both occasions, all the en-tral gangway. Extensive views are a Government that will have any made entirely of steel, there being Crawshaw. They have attempted water vapour la much reduced. I gines came through without giving obtained through the long side win-less aggressive policy in the Far
n revolving central stage, in the to photograph the sun's corona picked on the Gornergrat mountain he slightest trouble.
East. Whether the cap he wears be Described as an air yacht, the that of Tsarist or Bolshevist, Cadet middle of the main stage to save with the aid of an artificial moon.
When I reached the summit of after consultation with meteorolo As for civil aviation, it is signi,
scene-shifting.
giats." the Gornergrat, which is two milea "I hope to bring something of high, I found the astronomers icant that, since the air services to new Fokker monoplane; bullt for or Menahavist, the Russian Bear is
Frozen Hands. he Continent were inaugurated at Mr. H. S. Vanderbilt, enables its in Eastern Asia, determined to bath the spirit of Russia to England in concluding their investigations, in
once more in the salu the Albert Hall this year. Before wintry weather.
Much hard work was done in the five passengers to obtain a fine view his paws
freezing temperature of the snow of the landscape and seascape, over brious waters of the Yellow Sea.
the opera itself there will be
A heavy fall of snow overnight mountain before the two astrono- Mr. Norton foresees a struggle a three choral and orchestral items had whitened the black erevasses mers could put their theory to the glass cabin. This cabin is fitted outronce between Russia and Japan from Mozart's "Requiem," which of the glaciers, and the range of test. They had to lie out at night The latest Rols-Royce engine, with easy chairs and the floor is for supremacy in Eastern Asia. will be sung by a choir of 1,000, I snow peaks rose up on all sides adjusting instruments on nown as the F.10, has recently suc- carpeted with thick plle rugs, and Russia will
never rest, he says, think the largest trained choir sparkling like frosted sugar in the with frozen hands. They had to essfully completed its official type altogether the machine is consider- until she has established her power that can have ever sung. There sun.
solve all manner of difficulties, such Few places in all England are Mountain Summit.. est of 100 hours at the first at-ed the most luxurious of its type on the Pacific; Japan will never will also be items from other Rus-
surrender her dream of an empire sian operas."
They were working at a make- camera lens when the sun shone.
as the gathering of molature on the more delightful than Rye, in Suspex, and few buildings more engaging empt, and has been granted an air-ever constructed,
shift observatory which As far as
Dr. on the Asian mainland. worthiness certificate.
Steavenson had fitted up in an ex- the artificial moon, was put in
The day arrived at length when than its ancient parish church (saya a "Daily Cronicle" writer,) It is China is concerned Mr. Norton con
posed position on the very summit action.
good to learn, therefore, that the siders the immediate outlook to be NORMAN RIVALRY. of the mountain. A seven foot long
The first photograph was taken recently-discovered fourteenth-cen- rigid camera. of the type used by with a yellow screen and a pan- tury staircase and long-forgotten the Astronomer Royal to photochromatic plate. The astronomers chamber are to be put into proper graph the recent total eclipse of hurried with it in excitement to the order.. The work so far has disclos- the sun was pointed to the sky dark room. Would it show the ed some interesting additional de- A contest is going on for the There were rescopes and reflecting corona?. It was so cold that the tails, and much might still be writ- that he looks to achieve a moral Norman championship of England.sembled in every detail the astrono- with relays of hot-water bottles Elizabethan date, the charnel house mirrors. The observatoryre photograph had to be developed ten on the "poor men's gallery" of and intellectual renascence among ith the cooling water. The cylin
Both Hastings and Bexhill, which mical expeditions which camped round the developing dish. The and the quaint windows here in er heads and gas passages
Genoa, Sept. 9.
the Chinese people, to give them a are on the Southeast coast, claim out during the eclipse in the play photograph was excellent, but not situ. For this time-honoured edi ormed integrally with the cylinder Teresa Dagnino, aged 17, movie establish a modern constitutional first within their precincts.
"Rudolph, I die for you!" cried national, consciousness and to that William the Conqueror landed ing fields of Giggleswick School.up to the expected standard. Many fice shows the architecture of every
Dr. Steavenson stated that from other trials were made, astings, and inserted seatings are
century sinço earliest Norman sed for the two inlet, and two ex-fan and faithful admirer of the state on the ruins of the old theo
Nine hundred years ago, it seems, calculations made by him during One morning the astronomere times. We may conclude that the aust valves in each cylinder. The famous sheik of the pictures, as cratic empire.-"China Express and William the Conqueror was born, the recent total eclipse he came to awakened to find their intruments work of restoration will, as ac- ylinder blocks are secured to the two railroad men dragged her Telegraph."
Hastings celebrated the event by the conclusion that, given the lying under three inches of snow, cording to Ruskin, be reanimation Inviting several Mayors of Norman right conditions, it would be pos- They persevered under the most also, and in sympathy with the past. towns in France to visit her. Box-sible to photograph the sun's corona trying, conditions, using red and hill at once rose in arms. She Im./ without waiting for the moon to ruby screens instead of yellow.
eclipse the sun. the crank chamber by means of effort at romantic suicide only
Even on cloudless days they obsér | red, mediately organised a week's fes In other words, he believed that anges formed сл the cylinder resulted in some cuts and bruises,
bival to commemorate the 900th an- if he could reproduce an artificial ved high up in the sky a faint haze Germany now has a queen of of ice spicules near the sun, sharpshooters. Anni Mueller of chose the week of the anniversary Bethnal Green Museum concerning iversary. The Mayors of Sussex eclipse of the sun he would be able Dr. Steavenson refuses to say Plaffenhofen, Bavaria, is the Brat The crankshaft is arfanged to be of "Ruddy's death" ta. immulate a rope of human hair, which has are backing Bexhill.to take those photographs of the whether his attempt to create an
woman to wrest the coveted royal upled at the driving end, either to herself on the altar of love for been stored away for many years, which was compiled by William the tronomers are always willing to go ful until he has had time to study The markemen of Bavaria, assem
Bexhill points to Doomsday Book, mysterious corona for which as artificial eclipse has been success title from her male competitors.. propeller shaft carried in an ex- the famous movie star
has resulted in the exhibiting to ension pleca bolted to the crank-
"The corona," said Dr. Steaven- show rings of light which differ amber, or to the pinion of a spur photo of Rudolph was found sewn great interest.
as a little place close to Bexhill"
son, as everybody who saw the with the screens used." They will tournament, were much surprised pe reduction gear by means of the into her dress over her heart. The rope, which weighs five hun. The historical rivalry of the two eclipse for the north of England have to be subjected to closer to see a woman's name among the The anniversary of Valentino's dredweight, is over seven, hundred towns is' carried out in their com knows, becomes visible, when the study and compared carefully, with entries. At first thay treated Anni black image of the moon covers totality pletures before any judgMueller's attempt to compete with
o time have the representative lines een without a number of air liners Iriven by Napier Lion engines.
Use of Aluminium.
which they are passing, from their}
It is fitted withla Napler engine The Holls-Royce F.10 is a 12-and is capable of a maximum speed ylinder "Vee" engine of sin. bore of 115 m.ph. and can cruise for nd 5.5in. stroke, in which alumin-five hours at 90 m.p.h.
am has been very largely employ-)
d. Each block of six cylinders is ormed from one aluminium casting
f a special alloy, with inserted steel ylinder barrels, in direct contacti
are
rank chamber by long studs pass-
DIED FOR VALENTINO!
from under the wheels of s
ng through the complete depth of freight train passing through the
he cylinder casting, and they abutstation here..
ners.
atented RR drive, which relieves
dark in the extreme. Such hope as the author has he places in the Young China movement, once it haar "cast aside its adolescent obses
elons." It: la to this movement
Signorina Dagnino, whose
ROPE OF HUMAN HAIR.
A`yachtsman's inquiry at the
BETWEEN TWO RESORTS IN ENGLAND.
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IN RYE CHURCH,
WOMAN SHARPSHOOTER.
When taken to the hospital, a the public of a Japanese relic of Conqueror, and refers to Hastings to the ends of the earth the data obtained. All the plates bled at Flaffenhofen for the annual
e shaft of all bearing loads due to death was signalised by lon's feet long and was bequeathed to the mercial rivalry. Each is a seaside
queues of women at the picture museum fifty years ago by a Mr. p Ignition is effected by two com palaces, waiting to see revived E. Watson, a British merchant in etely independent 12 cylinder Rudolph films being run in Yokohama Mr. Arthur, K. Sabln, agnetos, driven by a cross shaft memory of the recurrence of the curator of the museum, gives thố
the wheel case end of the engine, actor's death. United Press following history of the rope ne magneto dealing with the igni- meadow
on plags on the inlet sides of the —
gine, that is, In the Vee" and the
her magneto operating the pluga FOR STIFF, SORE MUSCLES,
ear the exhaust valves on the out
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ment can be given.
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