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THE CHINA MAIL.
窳 basis showed for the eight months
BRITISH INTERESTS the name of Jardine has been
houachofd word In China from the ending August 31, 1929, an increnie A NEW TYPE OF IN CHINA
earliest days of our commercial rolations with her, and Sir Thomas Sutherland was closely associated TRADE INCREASING IN SPITE with those mysterious letters-"P.
OF WAR
ASSOCIATION'S DINNER
London, Nov, 22. Prince George was the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the China Association, held at the Hotel Victoria. Lord Southborough, the president, occupied the chair.
Proposing the toast of the Chlua Association. Prince George said:
of 3,500,000 Halkwan Taels, or over 17 per cent, as compared with the same periód last year, which was a "record' year. Imports showed an Increase of over 19 per cent, and exports an increase of nearly 13 per cent.
AIRCRAFT
mounted near the centre; a 35-h.p.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929.
which 50 hp. Anzani engine were REBUILDING THE Anzani engine was provided, in ad- ORGAN AT ST. PAUL'S
dition, for Horizontal flight. This machine had a total weight of THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE 1,875 lb. and is understood to have
HELICOGYRE
VERTICAL ASCENT
300 MILES OF ELECTRIC WIRE
LARGEST IN LONDON
Three hundred miles of electric wire are being used in the rebuild ing of the organ at St. Paul's This Cathedral.
and it will rank among the largest of Its kind in London.
and O." What recollections, sensa-
risen from the ground on several tions, even romances, do these two
occasions. The second machine, letters bring to most of us. Then
weighing 1,320 lb., hnd only two in the War came Mr, George There could be no doubt that tho
wings, on the extreme outer und of Jamieson, and, after him, Lord In China market was 'an expanding A further attempt to produce an each of which a 32-h.p. Bristol cheape. Mr. Frederick Anderson one and, that it offered increasing aircraft capable of rising and Cherub ongine was fitted; a 60-h.p. and Sir John Jordan, the last, a dis-opportunities. During the past 10 descending vertically, of remaining Anzani engine was, in this case, tinguished representative of Great years China's total import of most stationary in the air, and of Blying provided for propulsion. Britian in China-a master of of the commodities In which the
in a horizontal path, has now been machine is also said to have risen The work is in active progress, diplomacy, a man for whom, I be United Kingdom was chiefly inter-made by Mr. V. laacco, who describ- several times. The British-built and it is hoped that it will be com lieve, the Chinese entertained a ested had increased greatly, Irened the principles of his machine, to machine, however, has not yet been pleted in time for the performance special regard.
and steel had doubled, woollen goods which he has applied the
name tried.
It is generally similar to of Bach's Passion Music during My appearance here to-night es and tobacco had increased five-fold. "Halicogyre," in a paper read be the second machine, but It is my privilege to propose the
has four Lent next year. tont of a great and important body, your guest is due no doubt in part Piece-goods, it was true, showed a fore the Royal Aeronautical Society. wings each fitted with a 32-h.p. on the pedal board will be thirty
The largest pips to my desire to become better ac-falling off, but on the other hand representing British and Chinese
The Hellcogyre bears a strong re- Bristol-Cherub engine, a 100-h.p. two feet in length. trade here and in the Far East, in quainted with the origin and dis- China's demand for other types of semblance to the Cierva nutogyro, Genet engine being mounted in the pine wood, two and a half to three It is made of
cluding those
Western goods was becoming more vast undertakings tribution of trade, which goes to
but differs from it in that, in the front of the fuselage for horizontal inches thick, and weighs nearly one commerce sis much de-enrich the Empire, and to make the and
more diversified. On upon which
the former, mechanical means are pro-flight; the power plant thus ton. The organ is being enlarged, penda-the railways and shipping acquaintance of men who shoulder whole there, was good reason for vided for rotating the horizontal, or aggregates 228 h.p. The weight For many years-some 40, I believe heavy responsibilities which,
in taking a hopeful view of the United lifting, airscrew, while in the auto of the machine, which is a two -you have played a very important good and evil times, are necessary Kingdom's commercial prospects in gyro the horizontal airscrew is kept soater, is not given, but trials are
to keep our ship of commerce alloat. China, bet part in cultivating those great com.
a very great deal, of in rotation by the action of the air. shortly to be carried out by the Air mercial interests which have
course, depended on price. We The method of driving the horizon, Ministry, and the results will be were being beaten in some directal airscrew in the Helicogyre is to awaited with much interest, not brought friendship, wealth, and em- ployment to several generations of
tions by Japan and America, as well mount a amall two-cylinder engine, unmixed, we fear, with a certain as by the Continent. our people. Your organisation has
In his fitted with a tractor airscrew, on the amount of scepticism. In any case, been remarkable, for England and
to follow the questions of Emptions in China were superior to that horizontal airscrew, this method of the discussion on the paper, will opinion our distributing organisa- tip of each blade of the main the trial, Mr. Wimperis said in China are far apart, and the ad-trade generally. Apart from this, ministration of such a vast busi I am particularly glad to meet the
of any other Western nation and driving, which will appear objection-probably settle the question whe from his experience he knew that able to many, being preferred by thether there is any advantage in air ness-watching markets, anticipat-members of the China Association. ing the demands of customers, and because I have recently been in
the most skilful and alluring sales-inventor to mechanical gearing or craft of this type, or whether they finished the organ is being re- ensuring the delivery of all kinds Chinese waters when serving in manship could not prevail to-day other forms of power transmission. advantages outweight the disadvant of goods in a distant land, must II.M.S. "Hawkins" between 1925 against price. have called for great administrative | and 1927. (Cheers.) then had capacity. I do not say exceptional capacity, as what you have accom- plished in the past has been just the kind of adventurer's business for which We, BM a nation, are so eminently suited. (Cheers.)
Memories of the Yangtsze Both as an officer who has served
in the Royal Navy at a civilian
I am anxious, in tesa difficult days,
the opportunity of visiting most of the ports along the coast and up the Yangtze as far as Chiunking. In consequence I am able to follow. with great interest And a little
understanding, all those issues of which we henr so much in these days,
Needless to say, when confrented with heavy obligations, you have been fortunate in producing some
I can assure you that I was very remarkabla men to deal with them, much impressed with all I saw of not merely men of business, but that wonderful cruntry, and I ap students of life and character parti-preciate the anxious care, with which cularly suited to deal with the com-
your Association has nurtured and plicated affairs of the Far East.
fostered the China trade. What is more. I do not desire to confle my good wishes to our own' people--I earnestly hope for a return to pro- sperity, and to a happy condition which will make for the prosperity
British Leaders in China
In other words, the opportunity has always found the man, Sir Thomas Wade, for instance, who
was President in 1890-91, a great Chinese scholar of whom it is said that there are naval and consular officers still struggling with his text-book on China, even to this day. Sir Robert Jardine was another
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A CHINESE BLUF
Malacca, Dec. 14. The young Straits-born Chiness wearing European clothes who was first produced before a Penang Court was brought to Malacca and charged before Mr. C. W. Dawson with cheating the Ong Dispensary of a camera. The accused pleaded guilty and the case was postponed to the 17th inst.
The accused, who came to Malacca in great style, manuged to be re ceived by many well-known Straits born Chinese of Malacca and was even given a dinner by the elite of the Straits-born Chinese and on the eve of his departure went to the Ong | Surprising Customs Figures Dispensary and obtained a camera Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell, in reply, from one of the salesmen of the dis- said that in spite of all the adverse pensary, Mr. Yan Kee Leong. The circumstances the Shanghai Cus- accused pretended to be a high toms returns on the old 6 per cent.. | Government official in China.
of China as well as ourselves.
The blades or wings of the horizon- ages. tal airacrew are each articulated to
For
NEW SILK STORE
a hub in such a manuer that they are fren to turn' in all directions, but are prevented from falling, when at
A new silk store trading under rest, by wires attached to a central the namo of the Tajmahal Silk column. In flight, the wings take Store, was opened on the 23rd inst., up the correct position as a resultat No. 5, Wyndham Street, opposite of the aerodynamic and centrifugal the "Chira Mail" office, where an forces acting on them; the angle of interesting selection of Silk or Silk incidence can, however, be regulat Gooda is displayed. ed by the pilot by means of ailerons fitted on their trailing edges. horiental flight, a separate engine
Mr. Narottam Morarji, a milion and ractor screw are mounted an aire shipowner of Bombay,
was | the ront of the fuselage, and we found lying 'dead in a ravine.
understand that the method of con- trolling the machine in flight la the same as that of an ordinary aeroplane, with the addition of the incidence control already mentioned. So far, three machinés of the type described have been constructed, two for the French Government and one, by Messrs. Saunders, of Cowes, for tho Air Ministry. Of these, the first had four wings, on two of
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was dismantled owing to the repair It was in 1925 that the organ
of the dome pillars, and in order to carry on the musical traditions of the Cathedral the instrument was. reconstructed, a skeleton of
in the nave. former self, in a temporary position
its
the Cathedral dome are now near- As the repairs to the pillars of
placed in its former position.
A
number of improvements and addi- tions are being made to the organ which will add to its power and variety of tone. The electric me chanism installed in the temporary instrument, which ensures a rapid and crisp response on the part of the pipes, is being retained, as well as the modern blowing plant, con- sisting of a rotary fan.
THE RIGHT OF MAN
GIVES WAY TO RIGHTS OF WOMAN
THE ANTI-FEMINIST
the domineering and perverse con- Exasperated beyond endurance by duct of the "ultra-feminists," cer- tain indignant gentlemen in Ger- many and Austria lately instituted "The World's Lengus for the Rights of Man."
The campaign, says the "Morning Channel and hostilities have opened Post," has already crossed the
Each of the three Party leaders has at the very gates of Westminster. had his attention drawn to the iniquitous "injustices" under which modern man labours.
The divorce laws, for instance. bowever wealthy in her own right, How scandalous that, a woman,
monstrous that she should be per- should be granted alimony! How
mitted to retain for ever a title filched from an unsuspecting Count or Baron in a moment of youthful rapture! The "anti-ultra-feminist" unequal and derogatory legislation. intends to sweep away all such
Ho also has his eye on the Schools, holding that there is no more insidious foe of manhood than the growing practice of permitting boys to be instructed by membera of the softer sex.
"We are against the masculine woman who thinks she can take any man's job and do it batter than he can." Unfortunately for the League, there are a good many women who not only think they are so fitted, When complete the organ will but are actually proving their com- possess five manuals, and eighty-petence in all spheres of activity. seven speaking stops, controlling about 4,500 pipes which vary in weight from nearly one ton to half an ounce, all of which will be care- fully brushed out and cleaned be fore the organ is reassembled. The old organ case, a fine example of Grinling Gibbona's carving, is being retained.
While the work of rebuilding the organ is proceeding a small two- manual instrument on wheels will be used to accompany the services.
Mendelssohn la counted among the musical giants who have played
a
"The Rights of Man" died natural death in the War, and show little signs of being resuscitated. "The World's League for the Righta of Man" is the final spasmodic twitching of a worm that will never turn again.
on St. Paul's organ. The present organist is Dr. Stanley Marchant, and eminent organists at the Cathe- dral, during the past half century have included Dr. Charles Macpher- son, Sir George Martin, Sir John Stainer, and Sir. John Goss.
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